. Guide to Sowerby's models of British fungi in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) . ^^^^. 40 GUIDE TO THE MODELS OF FUNGI. 77. Cortinarius violaceus Fr.—Pileus dark purple, fleshy, con-vex, villous-scaly, margin at first involute; flesh soft, purple; gillsdistant, adnate, broad, intense violet-purple, then cinnamon ; stalkbulbous, thick, spongy-solid, stout, tomentose, then fibrillose, darkpurple; cortina woolly, azure-blue, stained with the ferruginousspores. A handsome species, common in woods and open ground.Inodorous, but with a mushroom taste. Esculent. Care must
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. Guide to Sowerby's models of British fungi in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) . ^^^^. 40 GUIDE TO THE MODELS OF FUNGI. 77. Cortinarius violaceus Fr.—Pileus dark purple, fleshy, con-vex, villous-scaly, margin at first involute; flesh soft, purple; gillsdistant, adnate, broad, intense violet-purple, then cinnamon ; stalkbulbous, thick, spongy-solid, stout, tomentose, then fibrillose, darkpurple; cortina woolly, azure-blue, stained with the ferruginousspores. A handsome species, common in woods and open ground.Inodorous, but with a mushroom taste. Esculent. Care must betaken not to confuse this with other purplish species, several otwhich are either suspected or known to be poisonous; attentionmust be paid to the dry, downy pileus, the bright-purple fleshas seen when cut or broken, and especially the cinnamon-colourof the spores. C. violaceus is frequently confounded with Agaricusnudus Bull., a purple species with white spores. 78. Cortinarius sublanatus Fr.—Pileus fawn-coloured, at lengthferruginous, slightly fleshy, unibonate, clothed with innate, floccose, fuscous s